[virtually as-new, with just a tiny bit of shelfwear to the bottom edge of the book; faint handling weat to the jacket]. The second "Thursday Next" time-and-space-hopping biblioadventure, in which Tuesday "must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the page of 'The Raven'", which also involves "jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's 'Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies' [and becoming] the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself."